So remember at the end of last year when I mentioned I was getting into roller derby?  Well, since then I was inducted into the league, chose my new derby moniker (Bimbo Slice, if you were wondering), passed my WFTDA rules test, passed my scrimmage eval, and was drafted onto the B team, the Yankee [...]

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I recently finished FRESH MEAT, an assignment for Jamie Kosoy’s dynamic interfaces class. We were required to create a data mashup using two separate services, I chose an XML feed, Twitter, and YouTube to make a “roller derby aggregator” of sorts.  Jamie taught me how to scrape DNN’s score feed to make a bootleg XML [...]

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Why, you tempt them with technology and the promise to see their progress visualized, of course!  Having a little motivation (ie: roller derby) doesn’t hurt either.  You see, I haven’t even thought about running since a season-long track and field career in high school.  And even then I was more of a sprinter than long [...]

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